Best Crop Tech Companies in Boston, United States
The 40 best Crop Tech companies in Boston, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Indigo.
Our analysis of 50 Crop Tech companies
$5.7b in tracked funding; 93% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Crop Tech companies in Boston
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Stage | Founded | Founder | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abstract Agriculture 3-D printed micro-farming system for household hydroponic cultivation | — | — | — | Deadpooled | 2003 | Tiffany Roca Founder | — | — |
| 2 | Agdaptive Developers and suppliers of cannabis cultivation systems | — | — | — | Deadpooled | 2017 | Madison Palms Founder/CEO | — | — |
| 3 | AgriOrigin Online Agri-trading marketplace connecting farmers, merchants, FPO’s, and buyers | — | — | — | Unfunded | 2020 | R Sharma Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 4 | AgroZone Software platform for crop health assessment and market linkages for procuring farm inputs | — | — | — | Deadpooled | 2015 | Fernando Derossi CEO | — | — |
| 5 | AIMS GLOBAL CORPORATION AIMS GLOBAL CORPORATION | — | — | 39 | — | — | — | 17 patents Provides modular support structures for tubular and elongated construction components | — |
| 6 | BloomKonnect Online platform for B2B florist | — | — | — | Unfunded | 1998 | Raj Ravani President & CEO | — | — |
| 7 | Converted Organics Manufacturer of organic fertilizers and soil amendments | — | — | 16 | Acqui-Hired | 2006 | Rick McEwen CEO & President | — | — |
| 8 | Corner Stalk Farmsd Urban farm growing sustainable greens year-round through hydroponics and vertical farming | — | — | — | Unfunded | 2013 | Shawn Cooney Founder & Partner | — | — |
Top 12 Crop Tech companies in Boston
#1
Public · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2008 · 1218 employees$795.8Mraised▾
Autonomous labs for biotechnology, empowering scientists to design the living world. They provide autonomous labs and cloud lab services, enabling scientists to automate experimental work and focus on insight and creativity. The company offers solutions and datapoints services to design experiments and address research goals. Their autonomous systems lift the burden of manual lab work, empowering scientists to ask critical questions. They provide hardware, software, support, and cloud lab resources. The company's vision is to enable programming biology, curing diseases, and growing everything imaginable. This is a B2B tech company offering SaaS solutions for biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.
- Dec 2023Grant (prize money)—
- Aug 2023Grant (prize money)$387.5K
- Jun 2023Grant (prize money)$650K
- May 2020Series E$70M
#2
Indigo 🦄Series G · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2013 · 708 employees$1.4Braised▾
Provider of biological and sustainability solutions for the agriculture industry. The company offers biological products that harness the plant microbiome to protect crops. It also provides sustainability programs that help scale sustainable practices. These solutions aim to reduce emissions, conserve water, and improve farm profitability.
- Sep 2023Series G$250M
- Jun 2020Series F$360M
- Jan 2020Conventional Debt$25M
- Jan 2020Series F$175M
#3
Series B · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2017 · 14 employees$50.9Mraised▾
Provider of credit risk analysis and agricultural asset management solutions. It offers tools for credit commercialization, risk analysis, and access to agricultural assets. The company delivers a platform for obtaining credit asset history, facilitating investment diversification. It utilizes data processing to generate scores and analyses. The company automates credit processes, providing governance for supply chain participants.
- Feb 2024Series B$20M
- Oct 2022Series A$10M
- Nov 2021Series A$17M
- Nov 2020Seed$2.5M
#4
Public · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2018 · 437 employees$210.8Mraised▾
Cannabis industry solutions: vaporization, cultivation, production, and wholesale distribution. The company supports the regulated cannabis industry through innovation, offering end-to-end services and customer solutions. Core businesses include vaporization hardware design, research, development, and manufacturing. The company cultivates and produces medical cannabis products, offering a variety of strains, cartridges, tinctures, and capsules. Wholesale distribution services augment competencies across the organization in research, manufacturing, packaging, and technology. The company focuses on consumer devices and packaged goods, cultivation and production, and wholesale distribution. The company provides high-performance, state-of-the-art solutions that allow cannabis oil and concentrate producers to focus on their craft.
- Mar 2023Post IPO$52.8M
- Nov 2019Post IPO$2.7M
- Dec 2018Post IPO$36.3M
- Nov 2018Post IPO$119M
#5
Acquired · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2010 · 81 employees$45.5Mraised▾
Revolutionizing local food access with hydroponic container farms and software. The company provides a complete vertical farming platform, offering hydroponic container farms designed for maximum efficiency. They equip individuals, businesses, and communities with the tools to grow fresh food anywhere, regardless of experience. Their offerings include the Greenery container farm, Farmhand software for farm automation and data analytics, and comprehensive training and support services. The company empowers sustainable farming practices, enabling local food production and promoting food security. They focus on creating a global infrastructure to revolutionize local access to food, fostering resilient and secure communities. This is achieved through innovative technology and dedicated support, making fresh, healthy food accessible to all.
- Nov 2022Series B$17.5M
- Jul 2022Conventional Debt$12M
- Feb 2020Series B$15M
- Mar 2019Series B$8.1M
#6
Series B · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2016 · 85 employees$85.7Mraised▾
Natural protein solution protecting food, reducing waste, and improving supply chain. The company offers a natural, protective protein solution for all kinds of food, borrowing from nature to create a protective solution. Using water, salt, and heat, they extract silk protein from cocoons and repurpose it to protect foods of all different shapes, sizes, and textures. This innovative approach means better business for grower-shippers, offering more efficiency, less waste, and better quality. The resilient product allows for more supply chain flexibility and better planning. The company sources food-grade silk from farms all over the world, with sustainable farming and responsible employment practices. The business model focuses on providing more food and less waste, creating a positive impact.
- Feb 2022Series B$50M
- May 2021Series B$2.4M
- Apr 2021Series B$16M
- Jul 2020Series A$12M
#7
Series A · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2002$3.5Mraised▾
Provider of ERP software solutions for heavy equipment job management and dispatching. It offers a software designed specifically for heavy equipment job management, offering solutions for taking orders and executing tasks efficiently. It provides ERP software solutions for subcontractors in the heavy construction equipment services industry.
- Aug 2023Series A—
- Jun 2017Seed$2M
- Apr 2017Seed$1.5M
- Jul 2015Seed$250K
#8
Series A · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2015 · 32 employees$13.6Mraised▾
B2B marketplace for food businesses to sell surplus food. The food businesses and farms manage unsold food inventory. It offers an online marketplace that connects food businesses with organizations that are in a need of food. It notifies the organizations of new surplus food offers via text messages in real-time. Offers an online platform for businesses to manage their inventory along with accounting solutions and KPI report generations.
- Dec 2021Series A$11M
- Oct 2018Seed—
- Nov 2016Seed$2.5M
- Feb 2016Seed$120K
#9
Acquired · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2009$31.9Mraised▾
Food safety laboratories and consulting group providing testing and training. They offer comprehensive laboratory testing services, including food microbiology, analytical chemistry, allergen testing, authenticity testing, bioengineered food analysis, and more. Their expert consultation services cover crisis management, environmental monitoring, and food safety plan development. They provide training programs through their academy, ensuring food safety and sanitation knowledge from C-Suite executives to line workers. They are dedicated to facilitating the production of wholesome foods through expedited laboratory testing services and expert consultation, supporting regulatory compliance and ensuring food safety across the industry. They offer analytical testing and food safety consulting services.
- Jul 2017Grant (prize money)$1.4M
- Apr 2017Grant (prize money)$995.1K
- Aug 2016Series C$12.7M
- Apr 2016Conventional Debt$2M
#10
Series A · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2017 · 72 employees$100Mraised▾
Manufacturer of biofertilizers. It develops microbial strains of soil nitrogen-fixing bacteria with genes that enable them to provide required levels of nitrogen to crops. Claims to develop microbial strains using synthetic biology techniques.
- Mar 2018Series A$100M
#11
Series A · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2014 · 77 employees$2.6Mraised▾
Robotics, analytics, and automation solutions for golf, sports turf, agriculture, defense. The company empowers creators by providing a platform that integrates visionary robotics with actionable data and agronomic responsibility. This platform offers applications across diverse sectors, including golf, sports turf management, agriculture, and defense. It delivers actionable insights and promotes responsible agronomic practices through its innovative approach. The company's solutions leverage robotics, analytics, and automation to improve efficiency, optimize resource utilization, and drive better outcomes in these key industries. It is a technology company offering software solutions.
- Feb 2021Grant (prize money)$256K
- Sep 2020Grant (prize money)$299.5K
- Feb 2018Series A—
- Oct 2017Series A$2.6M
#12
Seed · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2018 · 28 employees$2.3Mraised▾
ADAVIV provides farm monitoring solutions. It offers AI-based sensors to collect in-farm data and plant biometrics to analyze and provide insights on crop growth and optimize farm productivity.
- Jul 2021Seed$2.3M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Crop Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
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How research on Precision Agriculture is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Precision Agriculture — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 2,521 United States-affiliated papers.
- Purdue University West Lafayette142
- Agricultural Research Service104
- National Research Council85
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln68
- Texas A&M University62
- Field (mathematics)3→61
- Scalability4→52
- Convolutional neural network1→46
- Identification (biology)1→44
- Crop1→34
- Sustainability1→56
- Sustainable agriculture2→53
- Irrigation12→61
- Agricultural engineering32→80
- Field (mathematics)21→67
- Sustainability4→41
- Food security1→22
- Field (mathematics)8→22
- Productivity2→16
- Sustainable agriculture3→14
Where precision agriculture is researched across United States
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing precision agriculture patents in the United States
United States precision agriculture patent filing is accelerating — 212 filings from 42 assignees (2016–2025), led by Stout Industrial TECH, American Science & ENG, BLUE River TECH; annual filings 7→16.
- Stout Industrial TECH28
- American Science & ENG24
- BLUE River TECH21
- Cohen Harris LEE18
- Agjunction17
- Valmont Industries15
- Stout Industrial Technology11
- AGCO9
Common questions
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